Evening Star Newspaper, August 4, 1932, Page 4

T A4 == TROOPS LIFT SIEGE OF INDIANA MINE Airplanes and Infantry Rout Pickets Who Imprisoned Non-Union Men. [ Young Editor CONDUCTS NATIONAL MAG- AZINE AT 30. he Associated Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., August 4—| The siege of the Dixie Bee Coal mine | was raised by the ned forces of the | < State today and besieged miners | were freed. | picket whose sniping 65 non-union men prisoners faded into the night as G heavily armed, marched to the mine. Four wounded miners, without medi- cal attention since Tuesday afternoon, when they fought a rifle battle in which one picket was kiiled and four injured hospital against pos- en encamped e shaft, the non-union ey believed arrival of late yester- ickets appeared e mine, they e swooped over b ¥s. dsmen, PARKE A. ARNOLD, Native of Washington, is perhaps the | most youthful head of a national publi- | cation in the United States. At 27 he was an established magazine editor, and now he edits the Kraftsman, official publication of the National League of Masonic Clubs, an organization of 300,- 000 members LIEUT. MA.RV!N HERE George W. Marvin, Corps of eers, U. S. A, has reported for temporary duty as assistant to Maj. Jo- | seph D. Arthur, jr, district engineer | for the War Department, for the Wash- ington area, following a voyage from | San Francisco to New York. Lieut Marvin was on duty recently at the! Oregon Agricultural and Mechanical | College at Corvallis, Ore. He will ent the Army Industrial College here for & course in the Fall. Lieut. Karl B. Schilling, who was as- signed as Maj. Arthur's assistant some months ago, was transferred to the | District Building, .and is now at the engineer reproduction plant at Wash- ington Barracks . e guard infantry companies ordered here by Gov. Harry G. Leslie after repeated urgent requests from Sheriff Joe Dreher, whose force of deputies was helpless to combat the well manned picket line An order to bomb the picket positions after it was i pilots maint the area. This sieged miners, be and ended the bloodiest Indiana mine labor disputes Not & picket was to be found when the guardsmen arrived at the mine this They searched surrounding then mine surveillance. ved, cowed the pickets ght in recent 1 king snipers, took positions protecting the property. The wounded, who were brought to e Haute, were Gerald Gradje, 26, Sullivan, shot twice in the right leg and twice in the right hand; John Fullman, 31, Terre Haute, bullet wound in right side; Elmer Bedwell, 26, Sulli- van, shot in the left arm, and Glenn Brossman, 31, Terre Haute, who was struck in the right leg. Military Rule Declared. Acting on behalf of Gov. Leslie, Adit Gen. Paul E. Tombaugh proclaimed the Dixie Bee Mi d adjacent territory under military control, effective at 9:30 last night e last night the Governor, at In- polis, announced the negotiation rf a virtual truce of hostilities at the embattled mine. He said after opera- tors of the mine agreed to discontinue efforts to work the shaft with non- union labor pending a general wage settlement in the Indiana field, union representatives telephoned orders to disband the pickets. Immediate denial came from officialé of the Dixie Bee Coal Mining Corp., who said mo officer of the mine had conferred with the Governor. John Hoke Beasley, attorney for the mine, issued a statement saving the pickets had failed to' withdraw after a tenta- tive agreemend entered into by Ralph Butler, mine superintendent, under which' the mine would suspend opera- tions for an indefinite period. Mine officials said today they plan- ned to resume hoisting of coal as soon 85 their employes recovered from ef- fects of the long siege. The appearance of National Guards- men was their second sortie into the Indiana mine field in two weeks, Gov. Leslie sent four companies to Dugger, Ind., recently to lift a siege at the co- operatively operated Hoosier coal mine It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank T Ame. Note $120 $180 $240 $300 $360 $540 $1,200 $6,000 Morris Plan Bank Under Sepervision U. S. Treasary 1408 H Street Northwaest Sho Tomorrow—Closed Saturday THE NEW Jellefts A 1216-1220 F Street N.W. Washable Sports Silk Dresses Reduced! kin—Chalk Crepe \ Briella—Doe Dull st watch! repes to play in as well length sleeve. hort from nc sleeve. and lo: bows and buckles s, 12 10 40. \\ Iulv. Blue, Maize, Flesh! SPORTS SHOP—THIRD FLOOR Another Startling Value in the Sports Shop Fine lacy weaves as w regular stitch! with short sleeves less. Black, rust, red, tropic boucle 3louses and sleeve- THE EVENING HOOVER CRITICZED INB.EF EVI[}IIDN Legion Post Hits Methods of U. S. Officials, but Prais- ing Glassford. Denouncing the manner in which the bonus marchers were evicted from their STAR, WASHINGTON, tion be transmitted to Gen. Gllssford.‘\ the Commissioners of the District of | Columbia, the President and Vice Pres- idvnt u( the Lmt!d States, the Speaker Representatives, the e of warr e e e e press and the mtmml commander of the American Le; g)un 195 BONUS SEEKERS | ON WAY T0 CAPITAL l There are 195 bonus seekers on thelr | way here from different sections of the | country, according to information ob- | tained by the local police from the De- partment of Justice yesterday. There They Will Preside at Enumeration { Costello Post, No. 15, the American Le- is one group of Communists listed. s set out in the report that the ans vesterday were in several dif- Louisville, Ky., 45; Chillicothe Louis, Mo., 40, in- and Washington, ramshackle billets last week by troops, Vincent B. Costello Post of the Ameri- can Legion has adopted a resolution condemning President Hoover and other Federal officials responsible for the evic- tions. In the same resolution, the Legion post praised the work of Brig. Gen Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of police,'in handling the bonus marchers. The resolution follows “Be it Resolved by the Vincent B. a woman, Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, notified the several precinct commanders to be on the alert for the marchers and to see that District laws are not violated. BIEE. INJU.RY SEF%IOUS Policeman Green Cf. Dity as Re- sult of Blow on Chest. ; Aubrey M. Green, member of the seventh precinct police command, was | slln(t\ «q his chest just over the h\al( while doing duty in the bonus army camp ne: Penusylvania avenue and Fourth street a week ago,, made no report of his injury because he thought it_was slight Y » he suffered glon, Department of the District of Co- lumbia, in regular meeting assembled this 2nd day of August, 1932, that we incorse fully the action of Gen. Pelnam D. Glassford, superintendent of police of the District of Columbia, in the man- ner and methods he used to preserve order and enforce the laws of the Dis- trict of Columbia during the stay of the bonus army, and we commend him or his sane and humanitarian toward these comrades and their families, and be it further “Resolved that we denounce and con- demn the President of the United ates and other Federal officials who are responsible for the brutal. un- American and unlawful manner in whic hthese hungry, homeless and des- titute veterans and their wives and children were driven from the District on last Thursday night; and be it further “Resolved, That copies of this resolu- | s0 much pain onsulted police surgeons, and y picture showed injuries in the region of the heart. He was immediately off duty on sick leave. Green is vears old and resides at 3030 Wisconsin avenue. gavel | D. C., THURSDAY, CURTIS-GARNER RACE BREAKS PRECEDENTS of Votes Deciding Which Will Be Vice President. By the Associated Press The clatter of broken precedents in| the present campaign is being in-| creased by the race between Charles Curtis and John N. Garner for the| vice presidency. | This is the first time i’ American history that both the Vice President and Speaker have been candidates for| the same office. Regardless of the outcome, they will preside jointly over the Senate and House during the counting of the electoral college votes that will for- mally_elect the next President and Viee President. The Senate and House will convene on the second Wednesday of next Feb- | ruary for the enumeration of votes. Vice President Curtis, on the right of the rostrum in the House chamber and Speaker Gamer, on the left. will preside, with the former wielding the , it will be the first time a Speaker and Vice President- lect has sat jointly with & defeated Vice President.” If Curtis is re-elected, it will be the first time a Vice Presi- dent has deieated a Speaker for the vice presidency. Garner, however, would not be (h(‘ | first Speaker to become Vice President. | Schuyler Colfax of Indiana, Speaker in the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses, became Vice Presi- dent March 4, 1869 If Garner ¥ Bullding permits lssued in Greate Melbourne, Australia, in the first thre months of this year called for construc- tion totaling $2.470,000, an increase of | nearly 170 per cent over the same period of 1931, DON'T FORGET GEORGE’S NEW STORE, 816 F ST. N.W. Begins Today! T BOTH OF GEORGES’ MID-SUM “RADI EAN-UP Saying Good-by to All Accumulated Radio Odds and Ends, Floor Samples, Exchanges, Reclaims, Trade-ins, Etc. AUTO RADIOS Slashed! Many brand-new sets—some samples and demonstrators—some are slight- Iy used. All are cut to the bone for PHILCO 7-TUBE BABY GRAND Atwater Kent Table Model Formerly $108. Philco 9-Tube Baby Formerly $69.50. Formerly $89.75. G. M. 11-Tube Combination . .. .. Formerly $250. ’32 Majestic Highbey:.."..... it Formerly $119.50. 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For some years, it devel- ped at a meeting of City Council, the city has been paying the Board of Su- ‘pervisors at the rate of $35 a month board and lodging of indigents rommlm‘d to the parish farm by the city, and at the same meeting it was announced numbers of Winchester boarding houses were Willing to enter | into_a contract for such service at | the rate of $16 per month. The Coun- cil at once ordered all city inmate. | moved from the parish farm and placed in homes here, thus saving $19 a month per head. Meanwhile, & suit pends in Circul Court to determine actual ownershi of the parish farm and also of county jail properties always claimed & certain equity properties, which are unier ¢ county authorities. 19 PRISONERS HUNTED Tunnel Used in Escape by 22, but Three Are Taken. JUAREZ, Mexico, August 4 () — Juarez soldiers and police yesterday sought 19 of 22 prisoners who escaped ail by tunneling. Four of the men face 20-year sentences for murder. 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