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POLICE ROUT TAXI
DRIVERS IN SESSION
Meeting Called to Protest
Refinancing Scheme of
Checker Cab Officials.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. June 12.—A stormy pro
test meeting of *OO Checker Taxi Co.
drivers against what they termed un
fair tactics of company officials in a
refinancing scheme broke up early to
day with 50 policemen, under Capt.
Joseph Palcsynski. on guard.
Police were called after drivers found
five carload* of brickbats piled in the
street near the meeting place. The
drivers also told police several hun
dred members were driven away by
sluggers who tried to storm the doors.
Every one who applied for admission
was searched for credentials and pis
tols, and police roped off the street for
a half block on either side to help keep
order.
The drivers said they opposed a plan
to sell the company to an Eastern firm
and called the meeting to elect new
officers.
Each driver voted to subscribe to a
fund to retain counsel to seek an in
junction against the officers' refinancing
plans.
A long list of murders, bombings and
lawsuits has marked the history of the
company in Chicago. Outstanding was
the killing in 1926 of Joseph Wokral,
who sought re-election as president,
and that of Barney J. Mitchell, treas
urer. last January. On his death bed
Wokral named Eugene "Red” McLaugh
lin as his slayer. McLaughlins body
was found in the drainage canal last
week. His brother. Robert McLaugh- j
lin, is president of the company.
CONVICT MURDER RUMOR
BRINGS AUTOPSY ORDER
Birmingham Prisoner Dies After
Three Houra’ Confinement in
Tortuous “Dog House.'’
Sr the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 12-
Coroner J. D. Russum has ordered Jef
ferson County authorities to open a
grave yesterday and permit an autopsy
on the body of John A. Marshall, a
convict, who died after three houra'
solitary confinement- in a small cell
known as the “dog house.”
Prison physicians ascribed Marshall's
death several days ago to heart trouble.
Since then, however, reports have per
sisted that he was struck on the he&d
with a hammer a-short while before he
died.
The ‘‘dog house,” ordered abolished
by the JefTerson County Board of Rev
enue soon after Marshall’s death, was a
small, boxlike cell which permitted a
prisoner to stand erect but was so small
that he could not sit down, stoop nor
even turn around. Two small auger
hcles were the only avenues for fresh
air.
HENRY MARtIn, CHICAGO
FLOP HOUSE ‘BUM’, DEAD
Burial Delaytd in Hopes Wealthy
Sisters WiU Keep Him Prom
Potter's Field.
By the Associated Free*.
CHICAGO, June 12. —Old Henry s
Martin’s dead, though probably his
name wasn’t Henry Martin at all.
He was a Sooth State street "bum.”
Not over SO years old, but he looked
much older. Not a flop on South
State street that didn’t know him.
Sometimes his wealthy sisters would
come down in their fancy automobiles
and buy him new clothes, fill his pockets
with money and ask him to come home.
But he never would go.
He died Tuesday, but they are de
laying burial, believing .the sisters will
chance back soon, seeking Henry Martin.
His pals are sure Henry's sisters
wouldn't want him burled in potter's
field.
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rhododendron festival at Asheville. N. C„ June 18-110. The four beauties above,
; who have been appointed by their governors, are Theola Matson, Birmingham,
Ala. (lower left); Frances Ransom. Aberdeen, Miss, (upper right); Christie
Maynard. Wilson, N. C. (lower right), and Eleanor Powell of Richmond. Va.
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Owner of Barrel
Forgot Its Gas,
Havoc Results
By the Associated Press.
CARLETON. Mich., June 12.
Harry Parish brought a steel bar
rel to the local blacksmith shop
Tuesday for some welding. He
needed the barrel to go home in.
Seth Roberts, the blacksmith,
applied the welding torch and
the barrel blew up, half of it
- going through the roof and the
other half through a wall. A ,j
police dog was blown out of the
window. Ed Harpst, a farmer,
was knocked unconscious. Rob
erts skinned both his knees in
the cinders near his forge, and
Parish lost his shoes and several
other pieces of clothing.
Parish remembered iater that
he had used the barrel to store
gasoline.
THREE U. S. ENVOYS
WILL MEET IN PARIS
Sackett, Willys and Edge Will
Confer on Policies in Eu
ropean Affairs.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, June 12. Three American
Ambassadors soon will be in Paris for
a discussion of European affairs and the
application of American policies to
them.
The envoys are Frederick M. Sackett,
from Berlin, and John N. Willys, from .
Warsaw, meeting with Walter E. Edge |
here.
Mr. Sackett came with his family for j
a visit, but in utilizing the opportunity j
for a discussion of general conditions \
with Mr. Edge.
The Paris embassy yesterday had not
been informed of the coming of Mr. j
Willys, but considered he also probably i
was bent upon a general talk, as he re- j
cently took the Warsaw post. I
TrtE & V1 ANT STAR. WASHINGTON, D. (\, THI US PAY. JTNK 12, 1930.
AIR MAIL REVISION
SAVES $1,000,000
Annual Reduction Seen on Five
Routes, Glover Tells Appro
priations Subcommittee.
| By the Associated Press.
A saving to the Government of more
1 than $1,000,000 annually on fVve air
’j mail‘routes alone was the result of the
| recent revision of the air mail contract
system described to the House appro
i priations subcommittee in hearings on
the second deficiency bill.
Appearing in support of a request by j
the Post Office Department for a defi- j
ciency appropriation of $1,700,000 for
air mail transportation, which is ln
clcded in the measure, Warren Irvin
Glover, Second Assistant Postmaster
General, said the revised system had
not yet been placed in effect with the
; other air mail routes.
The five lines referred to were the
Boston-New York. Chicago-Fort Worth-
Dallas, Chicago-St. Louis, Salt Lake-
Pasco. and Los Angeles-Salt Lake. The
new contract rate system approved re
cently by Congress, provides for a space
mileage rate, as compared with the old
straight poundage basis.
PRINCE TOKUGAWA SAILS
President of Japanese House of
. Peers Leaves for Canada.
YOKOHAMA, June 12 (A*).—Prince
; Iyesato Tokugawa, president of the
| House of Peers of the Japanese Parlla
! ment since 1903, sailed today for Van-
I couver. British Columbia, on the liner
Empress of Russia.
| Other passengers on the liner In
cluded Walter Hagen and Joe Kirkwood.
famous golfers, who have been touring
i the Orient.
FENG WOULD JOIN
FORCES OF CHIANG
President Refuse* Offer, Demand-,
ing Demonstration of His
Sincerity.
By the Associated Press.
NANKING, China, June 12.—Official
military reports from Hankow state ;
that because of a lack of ammunition i
and food, a representative of Marshal I
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Peng Yu-Hsiang, Northern general,
has approached President Chiang Kai-
Shek offering tp surrender and express
ing willingness to attack troops of the
Shansi government.
Peng was said to have demanded in
return that the Nationalist government
pay $3,000,000 for the reorganization of
i the People’s Army, of which he is
leader.
Chiang Kai-Shek was stated to have
refused the offer, demanding that Feng
first attack Shansi as a demonstration
of his sincerity.
In the midst of the vigorous drive
which Yen Hsl-Shan, governor of
Shansi, has been making on Chiang
Kai-Shek, chief of the Nanking Na
j tionalist government, reports that Peng
Yu-Hsiang was planning to turn against
Yen. his erstwhile partner In the revolt
against Chlang. suggest the possibility
of a new line-up in the already compll- j
cated Chinese situation.
An official denial was Issued during
the day of a report that Chlang Kai-
Shek was contemplating retirement.
It was stated that he was going by
airplane to Hankow to direct opera- i
tlons against the Northern troops.
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE.
SHANGHAI, June 12 (JP).— A strong
force of Communists is reported to'
have seized the town of Tayeh in the
Province of Hupeh.
Numerous atrocities were reported
from the place.
ZONING CODE CHANGE
SUBJECT OF PROTEST
A. U. Park Citizens Oppose Pro
posal in Resolution—Hear Talk
on Park Beauties.
Opposition to the proposed changing
of the zoning regulations to grant au
thority to the Zoning Commission to
make alterations In certain zoning clas
sifications at its discretion was voiced
in resolutions adopted by the American
University Park Citizens' >AsMKSiaaon,
meeting in Hurst HaU last nigfrfts
After the business session I DT.i 6. A.
’ Vartelman gave an illustrated talk on
j the "Beauties of the National Parks."
j This was the last meeting of the season,
the next meeting to be held in October.
Thomas E. Lodge, president, presided.
Derr to Head Pathe.
1 NEW YORK, June 12 OP).—Directors
j of Pathe Exchange. Inc., Tuesday elect
! ed E. B. Derr, president; C. J. Scollard,
; executive vice president: Lewis Inner
. I arity. vice president and secretary:
)! Arthur B. Poole, treasurer, and T. S.
. i Delehanty. assistant treasurer. Joseph
!, B. Kennedy continues as chairman of
i the board.